A lot of mud-slinging on here about HA setup and CF's dealing with the problem but I can only assume people are armchair experts with no real experience of HA a

A lot of mud-slinging on here about HA setup and CF's dealing with the problem but I can only assume people are armchair experts with no real experience of HA at the scale of CF. "So the root cause for the outage was that they relied on a single data center.". No. Root cause was that data centre operator didn't manage the outage properly and didn't have systems in place in which case they could have avoided it + some systems knowingly and unknowingly had dependencies on the centre that went down because CF did have systems in place to allow that centre to fail. "Cloudflare has a shit reputation in my eyes, because their terrible captchas". You don't like one product so they have a shit reputation? Enough said. "but unless you are physically powering off the dc or at least disconnecting the network from the outside world you are not testing a real disaster." If you have ever had to do this, you know that it is never a good feeling. On-paper, yes, you should try your DR but in reality, even if it works, you lose data, you get service blips, you get a tonne of support calls and if it doesn't work, it might not even rollback again. On top of that, it isn't a case of just disconnecting something, most problems are more complicated. System A is available but not system B. Routers get a bad update but are still online, and on top of all of that, you would need some way to know that everything is still working and some problems don't surface for hours or until traffic volume is at a certain level etc. If you trust that a data centre can stay online for long periods of time and that you would then be able to migrate things at a reasonable rate if it doesn't, then you have to trust that to an extend. All-in-all, CF are not attempting to blame someone, even though a lot is down to Flexential, the last paragraph of the first section says, "To start, this never should have happened...I am sorry and embarrassed for this incident and the pain that it caused our customers and our team." Well done CF